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C. C. KLBGKNER su J. R. T. GOATBS. RAILROAD CROSSING GATE.

No. 350,750. Patented Oct. 12, 1886.

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CHARLES C. KLEGKNER AND JOSEPH R. T. COATESJF CHESTER, PA.

RAE LROAD-CROSSING GATE.

SFZZCIE'ICAJION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,750, dated October l2, 1886.

Application filed July Q, 1886. Serial No. 206.941. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES C. Kinok- NER and J osnPI-r R. T. CoATns, citizens of the United States, both residing in Chester, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, have invented certain lmprovenientsin Railroad-Grossi n g Gates, of which the following is a specification.

lThe object of our invention is to construct a cheap, neat, and easily-operated gate, which, when extended, will form a guard of a more effective character than the single bar usually employed.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side view of our improved gate partially eX- tended, and showing the roadway and permanent'standard in section. Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view of a t-ruck forming part of the gate. Fig. 3 is an end view of the truck, with the roadway in section. Fig. 4 is a sectional plan on the line l 2, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a sectional plan View ou the line 3 i, Fig. 2; and Figs. 6, 7, and 8 are views of modifications of our invention.

A fixed standard or casing, A, situated at one side of the roadway and resting on suita ble foundations, contains a vertical shaft, B, which has its upper bearing in the casing and its lower bearing in a step, a.. On this shaft B are several drums, D, and at its lower end, below the surface of the roadway, is a pulley, E, around which passes a belt, c. This belt passes through a conduit, F, extending beneath the surface from oneside ofthe roadway to the other, the conduit having at the outer end a pulley, G,which also receives the belte, and is journaled in bearings g, secured to the side beams, ff, of the conduit, these bearings, if desired, being adjustable, so as to permit the taking up of the slack in the belt. The opposite ends 0f the belt e are secured to a truck, H, fromwhich extends avertical stanehion, I, secured to which at suitable intervals are the outer ends of ropes, chains, or bauds preferably wire ropes, which pass through guideslots a in the casing A and around the drums D, to which their inner ends are secured.

The truck H is composed of an upper frame, h, and a lower frame, h', one above the top rails, J, of the conduit and the other beneath the same, the slot j between the side rails receiving the tie-rods h2 and the lower portion of the stanchion I, which connects together the upper and lower frames of the truck. The upper frame, h, of thetruck has studs .:,on which are ]'ournaled the upper wheels, K, preferably of large diameter, and the lower frame, lz', has studs l for the lower wheels, L, which are of smaller diameter. The wheels K and L bear rmly on the upper and lower sides of the rails J J, and thus serve to guide and steady the stanchion I as it is drawn in or out.

In large gates the wheels of the truck may be spread apart, so as to increase the lateral area of the wheelbase to an extent dependent upon the height ol" thestanchion andthe weight ofthe ropes Springs m are placed between the nuts on the bolts lr and the upper frame, l1., to permit the upper wheels to` yield vertically, so as to pass over any unevcnness in the rails or any accumulations of dirt thereupon.

XVe provide the truck with clearing-plates 11, preferably in `front and rear of the truck, in order to clear from the rails J J any large 0bstructions. (See dotted lines, Fig. 4.)

The upright shaft B is driven, in thepresent instance,by ahandcrank, 19,011 ashaft,P, which has its bearings in the casing A and in an upright, M. The shaft P has a spur-wheel, q, which gears vwith a spur-pinion, s, on a shaft, S, having its bearings in the upright M and a bracket, s'. On the end of the shaft S is a bevel-wheel, b,which meshes with a bevelpinion, I), on the shaft B. Thus by turning the crank p in one direction the truck, with its stanchion,will be drawn across the roadway, the ropes 'L' being unwound from the drum D, and byreversiing the movement the truck will be returned to its original position, the ropes being again wound upon the drums.

Vhen necessary, a duplicate of the mechanism shown can be set up on the opposite side of the railroad-track, anda cross-shaft, T, Fig. l, may be geared to the shaft B and pass under the track, so that when the crank p is turned both devices will be operated simultaneously.

The rails J J maybe below the level of the roadway, as shown in Fig. (i, and guard-plates J may be placed above the truck, this construction being` especially intended for streets havhorse-railways, in which case the rails must be slotted for the passage of the stauchions.

Instead of making the guards of flexible ropes connected to the movable stanehion and adapted to drums in the fixed standard, asystem of lazy-tongs levers may be substituted therefor, as illustrated in Fig. 8, or the ropes may be passed over pulleys in the xed standard and connected to a weight contained in a suitable pit, as will be readily understood by l reference to Fig. 7.

We claim as our invention'- l. The combination ofthe fixed standard at one side of the roadway, a movable stanchion having a truck, guards connected to the movable stanchion and fixed standard and capable of contraction and expansion, a slotted conduit crossing the roadway and having top plates forming guides for the truck, and mechanism contained in said conduit for projecting and retracting the movable stanchion, the latter being connected directly to said operating mechanism, all substantially as specified.

2. The combination of the iixed standard at one side of the roadway, a movable stanchion having a supporting-truck, guards connecting the movable stanchion to the xed standard and capable of expansion and contraction, a

within the fixed standard and having a series of drums, flexible guards Wound on said drums and connectedl to the movable stanchion, and

mechanism, substantially as described, where- 3 5 by the stanchion is projected or retracted by the turning of the drum-shaft, allsubstantially as specified.-

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of 4o two subscribing witnesses. y

CHARLES C. KLECKNER. JOSEPH R. T. CO ATES. Vitnesses:

JOSEPH H. KLEIM, HENRY HowsoN. 

